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My first thought was "But back then those prompts were constant, making them almost useless", though maybe that did actually help by making software vendors rel

My first thought was "But back then those prompts were constant, making them almost useless", though maybe that did actually help by making software vendors rely less on admin rights?

pjmlp 8mo ago
That was the whole point.
klodolph 8mo ago
It was a big mess, because users didn’t expect it, developers wanted users to just have everything run as admin, and the UAC user experience wasn’t polished yet. But that’s what you expect from new security features being introduced.